![]() ![]() Gone (Reprise, 1995) sviluppa quelle idee con meno concessioni all’ideologia radio-friendly, e rimane uno dei suoi album migliori: Sorry You Asked (trombe messicane), Baby Why Not (fisarmonica cajun), Heart Of Stone (orchestra d’archi), Never Hold You (battito à la Rolling Stones). Il lato rock della sua arte è meglio rappresentata da Wild Ride, che tradisce la sua passione segreta per i Rolling Stones. This Time (Reprise, 1993) presentava un artista eclettico, la cui voce era finalmente circondata da arrangiamenti adeguati e in grado di elevare le melodie senza pretese di Ain't That Lonely Yet, A Thousand Miles from Nowhere, e di Fast As You. La musica di Yoakam divenne ancora più personale su If There Was a Way (Reprise, 1990) che fa attenzione anche al ritmo col rockabilly Takes A Lot To Rock You Baby e al boogie sudista Dangerous One. Una vena diversa emerse da Buenos Noches from a Lonely Room (Reprise, 1988), una collezione più cupa che enfatizza le sfumature psicologiche delle sue interpretazioni (Streets of Bakersfield di Homer Joy, I Sang Dixie, I Got You). Hillbilly Deluxe lo rese una star, grazie a Little Sister, Little Ways, Please Please Baby, e Always Late with Your Kisses. La semplice, disadorna, schietta rivisitazione della tradizione sull’EP A Town South of Bakersfield (Oak, 1984) e sull’album Guitars Cadillacs Etc Etc (Reprise, 1986), che include la Honky Tonk Man di Johnny Horton e Guitars Cadillacs, era eccitante quanto uno che cantava le canzoni acustiche di Bob Dylan trent’anni dopo, sebbene quello stile e quel "twang" riflettessero l’umore dei tempi quanto il punk-rock. Un artista country più apprezzato dal pubblico punk che da Nashville, nato e cresciuto in Ohio poi trasferitosi a Los Angeles, il cantante Dwight Yoakam è un discepolo della scuola dell’honky-tonk di Buck Owens e Merle Haggard, ma è riuscito a rappresentare un simbolo della scuola noe-tradizionalista della musica country. (Translation by/ Tradotto da Antonio Buono) The gospel-ish Who At The Door Is Standing to the rave up Yoakam's first film, and overall one of his best, running the gamut from South of Heaven West of Hell (Warner, 2001) is the soundtrack to Only bland nods at rockabilly ( A Place To Cry). ( What Do You Know About Love, For Love's Sake) with Tomorrow's Sounds Today (2000) picks up from Gone's Last Chance for a Thousand Years (1999) is a career anthology thatĪ cover of the Queen's Crazy Little Thing Called Love.ĭ (2000) collects acoustic versions of his La Croix d'Amour (Wea, 1999) collects rarities and more covers. Under the Covers (Reprise, 1997) is a collection of cover songs.Ī Long Way Home (Reprise, 1998) is an album in the vein of the The radio-friendly ideology, and remains one of his best albums: Gone (Reprise, 1995) develops those ideas with fewer concessions to Wild Ride, that betrays his secret passion for the Rolling Stones. The rock side of his art is well represented by Melodies of Ain't That Lonely Yet, A Thousand Miles from Nowhere (one of his best Roy Orbison impersonations),Īnd Fast As You. This Time (Reprise, 1993) presented an eclectic artist, whose voice isįinally surrounded by adequate arrangements and can leverage the unassuming The bluegrass Since I Started Drinkin' AgainĪnd the country-rock of It Only Hurts When I Cry. With the rockabilly Takes A Lot To Rock You Baby, If There Was a Way (Reprise, 1990), that also pays attention to rhythm Homer Joy' Streets of Bakersfield, a duet with Buck Owens, and especially I Sang Dixie, one of his all-time best. Please Please Baby, and Always Late with Your Kisses.īuenas Noches from a Lonely Room (Reprise, 1988), a darker set thatĮmphasizes the psychological nuances of his delivery (songs such as Little Sister, Little Ways (perhaps the standout), Hillbilly Deluxe (Reprise, 1987) turned him into a star, thanks to The travelling hobo, the desolate loser and the stubborn optimist. The album codified his three-pronged artistic persona: Was as exciting as someone singing Bob Dylan's acoustic songs 30 years later,īut somehow that style and that "twang" represented the mood of the times Johnny Horton's Honky Tonk Man and especially Guitars Cadillacs, Guitars Cadillacs Etc Etc (Reprise, 1986), that contains Yoakam's simple, unadorned, plain revisitation of the tradition on theĮP A Town South of Bakersfield (Oak, 1984) Haggard but came to symbolize the neo-traditionalist school of country music. Nashville, Ohio-raised but Los Angeles-based signer Dwight Yoakam is aĭisciple of the honky-tonk school of such irregulars as Buck Owens and Merle South of Heaven West of Hell (2001), 5/10Ī country artist who was more appreciated by the punk audience than by ( Copyright © 1999 Piero Scaruffi | Terms of use)īuenos Noches from a Lonely Room (1988), 6.5/10 Dwight Yoakam: biography, discography, reviews, links ![]()
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